Slavery Abolition

A Peoples History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian is the story of a group of women outsiders who band together and create their own safe haven, the city of Heaven. The women come from different backgrounds and experiences but share a fierce desire to protec…

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We write as historians to express our strong reservations about important aspects of The 1619 Project. The project is intended to offer a new version of American history in which slavery and white supremacy become the dominant organizing themes. The Times has…

Skip to comments. The Party of Lincoln Is Uniting as Pelosis House Is DividingTownhall.com ^ | December 21, 2019 | John Pence Posted on 12/21/2019 3:59:58 AM PST by Kaslin Invoking Scripture to make his case for the abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincol…

Keeping up with the Innovators This month, Brian Foo and Ben Lee came back to the Library to gather feedback from staff in the early stages of their project and to showcase working prototypes. Brian presented his project Citizen DJ, a music production and s…

I used to be a literacy helper at a local primary school. Every Tuesday Id wedge myself into a small plastic chair and listen to young children as they read aloud. But sharing a book was only part of the job. Other responsibilities included wiping noses and a…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, lots of political events over the weekend, but my connection was tooth-grindingly slow, and so I’ll have a bit more shortly. –lambert Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflect…

by Adam H. DombyOn Friday, Haley declared the Confederate flag was “hijacked” by the racism of a single white supremacist terrorist in 2015, and that before then, “people saw it as service, sacrifice and heritage.”

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constr…

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constr…